Clasp for garment-supporters



(No Model.)

J. PETERSON.

CLASP FOR GARMENT SUPPQRTERS.

Patented Apr. 6, 1897.

Wit E55 EIS.

NITED STATES PATENT Frrcn.

JOHN PETERSON, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 580,293, dated April 6, 1897.

Application filed December 7, 1896. Serial No. 614,687. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN PETERSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Quincy, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usef ul Improvements in Clasps for Garment-S upporters, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clasps for garment-supporters, and although particularly designed for use on suspenders for holding up drawers it may equally well be used as a stockingsupporter or supporter for garments of anykind, as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 represents a front elevation of the improved clasp, shown as attached to the upper edge of a garment. longitudinal section on the line 2 2, shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the improved clasp, shown in its expanded position. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 represent the sheetmetal blanks composing the improved clasp.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

The improved clasp is made from two sheetmetal blanks A and B. (Shown, respectively, in Figs. 4 and The blank A has a circular, or nearly so, lower end A, having a serrated end portion A, which is bent inwardly, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

A A are side projections which are afterward bent. or doubled over to serve as fulcra for the coiled spring 0, interposed between the jaws of the clasp, as is common in devices of this kind.

On said blankA above the portion A, which I term the stationary clamping-jaw, is a shank A having laterally-extended wings A A which are afterward bent or doubled over the cord or strap D, that constitutes the garment-suspending strap, as usual. Above the wings A A the shank A has an extension A, which is bent downwardly as an-inclined protector. (Shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.) The Fig. 2 represents a.

blank B has also a circular, or nearly so, clamping-jaw B, provided with an inwardlybent and serrated end B, as shown. Said blank has side projections B B corresponding with the projections A A on the blank A and for a similar purpose. 011 the blank B above the portion B, which I term the movable jaw, is a shank B whichis afterward curved outwardly and below the protector A when the parts are assembled for use, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Normally the spring 0 holds the serrated jaws A I)" closed and holds them firmly in contact with opposite sides of the garment E, introduced between saidjaws in the usual manner. (Represented in Figs. 1 and 2.)

For the purpose of more firmly holding the garment between the jaws I prefer to attach to the interior of the jaws A B, above the serrated lips A B, U-shaped serrated duplex clips f f, which are made from blanks F (shown in Fig. 6) and afterward bent or doubled into the U-shaped form shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and preferablysoldered or otherwise attached to the inside of the jaws A B, as represented in Figs. 2 and The great advantage in this clasp over others is that the stationary jaw A is provided with an upper extension A bent downward in an inclined position, so as to serve as a cover or protector for the upper end of the shank B of the movable jaw, thus preventing garments in contact with the shank B from being caught or torn on such shank.

Another advantage is the arrangement on the inside of the jaws of additional serrated ledges f f, as hereinabove set forth and described.

WVhat I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim isi 1. A garment-supporting clasp, consisting in combination, a pair of spring-pressed pivoted jaws A, B, an inclined protector A on the shank of the jaw A, a movable shank B, arranged below such protector and auxiliary serrations f, f, arranged on the interior of the jaws A, B, above their main serrations A, 13, substantially as and for the purpose set forth,

2. A garment-supporting clasp composed name to this specification, in the presence of of stationary and movable serrated jaws pivtwo subscribing Witnesses, on this 27th day oted together combined with auxiliary serof November, A. D. 1896.

rated plates f secured to the interior of said JOHN PETERSON. 5 jaws above their main serrations A, B sub- WVitnesses:

stantially as and for the purpose set forth. ALBAN ANDREN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my LAURITZ N. MoLLER. 

